Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battery A, 45th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade, near suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. last week, blackbooted soldiers in fresh-starched fatigues worked over radar screens and Nike missile launch gear. Amidst the familiar incense of hot electronic equipment they chanted their trade litany as they practiced tracking on unsuspecting airliners: "Interlock held. Interlock cheated . . . Line volts O.K. . . . Three-quarters, three-quarters...
...celebrated his 70th birthday and his 20th anniversary as New York's archbishop, he could look the length and breadth of his see for some remarkable achievements. During the last two decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born...
...wrenching break from the past has its disasters. The longest and best story, Goodbye, Columbus, is about Jews who have made the ascent from grubby Newark to the green pastures of suburban Short Hills, NJ. Mr. Patimkin is a rich manufacturer of kitchen sinks, "tall, strong, ungrammatical, and a ferocious eater." Son Ronald was an all-state basketball player in high school and a Big Ten star at Ohio State. Daughter Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs...
White Sands. Jim and Abbie were married in the fall of 1945 and settled down in suburban Silver Spring. With war's end, Van Allen had no further interest in fuses or weapons. He wanted to get back to studying cosmic rays. He learned that the U.S. Army had captured nearly 100 German V-2s and was planning to fire them at White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., with sand instead of explosives in their warheads. Van Allen, along with several other scientists, was offered the privilege of substituting instruments for the sand...
...Typical Chalk deal: in 1942 he bought the 16-story apartment house at 1010 Fifth Avenue (corner of 82nd Street) for $1,000,000, putting up considerably less of his own cash. It is now worth upwards of $4,000,000, and Roy Chalk lives there, has built a suburban-style ranch house on the roof for his daughter's family...